Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of
their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales and
Princess of Wales. This day is Publish'd
The Case of Mrs Clive Submitted to the Publick. [This is
Mrs Clive's 22-page complaint against
the 'opression' of
the managers of both patent
theatres, who, it seems, formed a cartel to drive down actors' salaries, and caused by Mrs Clive's unemployment. She was dropped from
Covent Garden without due notice and not for cause. She was not applied to by
the Manager of
Drury Lane, although he knew her to be unemployed, because he still owed her #160 12s. Her case seemed doubly hard to her since she had equipped herself with a fine wardrobe for
theatrical use, had acted diligently in main and afterpiece, often on
the same night to
the prejudice of her health; had been at great expense in Masters for singing, for which article alone
the managers now give #6 a week." Concludes by pleading for publick support of her Case. She returned to cg to play
Lappet in
the Miser, 30 Nov. She states that
the published list of salaries in
the London Daily Post of 15 Oct. 1734 is incorrect.